Thraetaona

Dragon-slaying hero-king endowed with the Glory; overthrew the tyrant Azhi Dahaka/Zahhak and bound him beneath Mount Damavand.

Parentage

• parent: Athwya

Children

• Iraj
• Salm
• Tur

Domains

• kingship deliverance
• divine glory khvarenah
• healing medicine

Powers

• Smite the three-headed dragon Azhi Dahaka and bind him
• Be invoked against fever, disease, and the serpent's venom

Epithets

• Āθβiiāni Avestan · Athwyani · lineageof the house of Athwya (his clan-name)Avesta, Aban Yasht (Yasht 5.33); Hom Yasht (Yasna 9.7) (primary)

Relations

• enemy: Azhi DahakaSmote the three-headed dragon and, in the Pahlavi and epic tradition, bound him beneath Mount Damavand.Avesta, Yasna 9.7-8; Zamyad Yasht 19.36-37 (primary)
• ally: Aredvi Sura AnahitaSacrificed a hundred stallions to Anahita, who granted him the boon of overcoming Azhi Dahaka.Avesta, Aban Yasht (Yt. 5.33-35) (primary)
• descendant of: YimaThe Bundahishn genealogy traces Fredon of the Aspiyan line back ten generations to Jam (Yima); the intervening parentage lies outside the registry.Greater Bundahishn, ch. 35.8 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Avesta, Yasht 5.33-35 (primary); Avesta, Yasht 19 (primary); Ferdowsi, Shāhnāmeh (Fereydun) (primary)